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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the British and Spanish troops do while traveling west?
(a) Fight the French.
(b) Form into a cohesive army.
(c) Stay off the main roads.
(d) Have minor brawls between the British and the Spanish troops.

2. What does Murray believe when he offers Sharpe advice?
(a) They can outwit the French.
(b) Murray believes he is about to die.
(c) He can give Sharpe aid in adjusting to being an officer.
(d) Sharpe is a poor officer.

3. What does Vivar tell Sharpe the strongbox contains?
(a) Papers.
(b) Jewels.
(c) Money.
(d) Gold.

4. Who is killed when the French assault the farmhouse?
(a) Blackman.
(b) Williams.
(c) Parker.
(d) Logan.

5. What does Harper suggest they do with the Parker's carriage?
(a) Load it with gunpowder and blow it up when the French are by it.
(b) Send it barreling into the French cavalry.
(c) Tip it over to block the road.
(d) Burn it.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Williams suggest to Sharpe?

2. What does Sharpe do when Harper thinks Sharpe has agreed with the men?

3. What does Sharpe advise Vivar not to do?

4. In the prologue, where have Vivar and his men taken refuge?

5. What does Vivar say when Sharpe asks for explanations of what they are doing?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Dunnet order the riflemen to do when the French are charging them and what is Sharpe's response?

2. What does Sharpe order the Parkers to do and what does Sharpe do when Mrs. Parker refuses?

3. Who, of the French forces chasing Vivar, does Vivar watch the most and why?

4. What does de l'Eclin accuse Sharpe of and what is Sharpe's response? What does Vivar's brother say?

5. What happens as Sharpe is about to order his riflemen to flee the house and who joins him in the woods?

6. What do the British and Spanish find when they enter a village, what do they do and how do the troops feel?

7. Who does Sharpe meet when a monk wakes him and asks Sharpe to come with him and what does this person say to Sharpe?

8. Why do Sharpe's men begin to call out enthusiastically when the Parkers come in front of the assembly and what does Mrs. Parker explain to Sharpe?

9. What does Sharpe ask from the Parkers when they stop in a small town for the night and what does Sharpe end up doing for his men?

10. What is the fortress to which Vivar has brought Sharpe and the Spanish troops and what does Vivar say about Spain and the French?

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